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OZNAPPIES' idea is a good one, and the technical advice is totally sound.

Here's another idea: show the English language homepage by default, but determine the user's preferred language. If your site supports the identified language, include & display a hyperlinked text-box/graphic-banner suggesting the visitor "view this site in {the user's identified language}" which links to the homepage for that language.

Regarding which country gets the SEO rank for the "domain.com" - it depends on where your links come from, your overall domain authority, the page authority for your targeted page, and the geolocation factors referenced here.

If you want domain.com to get the rank for domain.com/french you can set <link rel="canonical" href="domain.com"/> in the head section of ./french .italian etc to pass the juice back to the main site. I would think that <a (anchors) would be better than 302's as these are not temp redirects but links to language variations. I would also ensure that I have a language tag in the html section <htmlxmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"xml:lang="fr-fr"lang="fr-fr">

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